blusterous

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Adjective
  • Winds will be blustery; out of the northwest 10 to 20 mph gusting up to 30 MPH at times.
    Steven Sosna, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Set along the cold, deep waters of Islay’s village of Port Ellen, the hotel is well placed for long blustery walks along the Three Distilleries Pathway, which takes you to the island’s heavy hitters of Laphroaig, Lagavulin, and, of course, Ardbeg.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Those reservations have been blown up by the bombastic presence of Alcaraz combined with Sinner’s stoicism, a synergy seen in full force at Roland Garros last year.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
  • That claim sounds bombastic when much of the art world sees the headline grabbing Banksy as a guilty pleasure at best.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • Max Clayton also makes a strong impression as Danny Bailey, a swaggering leading man modeled after Carousel’s Billy Bigelow and portrayed on the series by Aaron Tveit.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The notion of the swaggering state swallowing a chunk of its resistant neighbor is completely far-fetched.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • In conversation, Cornish-Dale is cocky but likable, with a languorous way of speaking that reminded me of Simon Cowell.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • Stand-up comedian Andrew Schulz also joined the Street Fighter cast as Dan Hibiki, who was first introduced in Street Fighter Alpha and is characterized as being obnoxiously cocky.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Chatter about Azik’s famous delens abounds, as does boastful talk about how Monica Bellucci’s family hails from the same part of Nalchik.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • Despite Netanyahu’s boastful statement, a series of nationwide polls last week found that most Israelis do not believe the US and Israel won the war against Iran.
    Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • And it’s been a very bumptious relationship ever since.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In public, Newsom speaks often and openly about his errors, fortifying his image as a bumptious, slightly hapless victim of his own enthusiasms.
    Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The tricky part of being a celebrity like Firstman on the internet is that some people can conflate your comedic persona (which is maybe a little arrogant, a little colorful) with your real identity.
    Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
  • Hunter is stubborn, arrogant and gifted enough to play for the Briar hockey team, yet refuses to for reasons the show has yet to reveal.
    Kennedy French, Variety, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.
    Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The Pitt definitely feels like the type of workplace where conceited doctors-in-training are pretty much guaranteed to quickly get knocked down a peg.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Blusterous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blusterous. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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